Half Term 1 & Half Term 2: How did the Norman Conquest change England?

• Content: Life in Anglo Saxon England, Contenders to the throne, The Battle of Stamford Bridge, Why did William win at Hastings?, The Bayeux Tapestry, The Domesday Book, The Feudal System, Castles, The Harrying of the North.

Half Term 3 & Half Term 4: What were the key events and changes in Medieval England?

• Content: Medieval life: villages, towns and religion; Murder of Thomas Becket, Magna Carta, Black Death, The Peasants Revolt, War of The Roses.

Half Term 5 & Half Term 6: How significant were the Tudors? How significant were the Stuarts and The Georgians?

• Content: Henry VIII and The Reformation, The Reign of Mary I, The Reign of Elizabeth I, Gunpowder Plot, Witchcraft, English Civil War, The Rule of Cromwell, Charles I and The Restoration, Georgian England, The American Revolution/ War of Independence.

Terms 1 & 2 Assessment:

• A knowledge retrieval at the start of every lesson.

• A red zone task completed independently every 1-2 lessons.

• Pupils will complete 1 STAR marked piece of work per term.

• Pupils will complete feedback on their STAR marked pieces of work and summative assessment pieces.

• Pupils will complete a summative assessment at the end of term to show their progress.

• Homework set every 2 weeks.

Terms 3 & 4 Assessment:

• A knowledge retrieval at the start of every lesson.

• A red zone task completed independently every 1-2 lessons.

• Pupils will complete 1 STAR marked piece of work per term.

• Pupils will complete feedback on their STAR marked pieces of work and summative assessment pieces.

• Pupils will complete a summative assessment at the end of term to show their progress.

• Homework set every 2 weeks.

Terms 5 & 6 Assessment:

• A knowledge retrieval at the start of every lesson.

• A red zone task completed independently every 1-2 lessons.

• Pupils will complete 1 STAR marked piece of work per term.

• Pupils will complete feedback on their STAR marked pieces of work and summative assessment pieces.

• Homework set every 2 weeks.

Half Term 1: How did the Slave Trade change society?

• Content: What is Slavery?, Life Before Slavery, The Slave Trade, The Middle Passage, Life on the plantations, Slave Resistance, Abolition of The Slave Trade, Impact of The Slave Trade, The Civil Rights.

Half Term 2: How did the Industrial Revolution change Oldham and the UK?

• Content: Factories, Child Workers, Oldham and The Industrial Revolution, Life in Industrial Towns, Medicine and Health in the Industrial Revolution.

Half Term 3: Why was the fight for Suffrage important?

• Content: What is Democracy?, Chartism, The Peterloo Massacre, The Suffragettes, Annie Kenney (Oldham Suffragette).

Half Term 4 & Half Term 5: How did World War One change and shape the future of Europe?

• Content: Long-Term and Short-Term causes of WW1, Recruitment, Trench Warfare, Conditions in the trenches, World War One Weapons, The Battle of The Somme, General Haig: Hero or Villain?, Russia leaves WW1 due to The Russian Revolution, Empire Soldiers, Women and WW1/ The Home Front, End Of the War.

Half Term 6: How did empires rise and fall over time?

• Content: The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, The Partition of India.

Terms 1 & 2 Assessment:

• A knowledge retrieval at the start of every lesson.

• A red zone task completed independently every 1-2 lessons.

• Pupils will complete 1 STAR marked piece of work per term.

• Pupils will complete feedback on their STAR marked pieces of work and summative assessment pieces.

• Pupils will complete a summative assessment at the end of term to show their progress.

• Homework set every 2 weeks.

Terms 3 & 4 Assessment:

• A knowledge retrieval at the start of every lesson.

• A red zone task completed independently every 1-2 lessons.

• Pupils will complete 1 STAR marked piece of work per term.

• Pupils will complete feedback on their STAR marked pieces of work and summative assessment pieces.

• Pupils will complete a summative assessment at the end of term to show their progress.

• Homework set every 2 weeks.

Terms 5 & 6 Assessment:

• A knowledge retrieval at the start of every lesson.

• A red zone task completed independently every 1-2 lessons.

• Pupils will complete 1 STAR marked piece of work per term.

• Pupils will complete feedback on their STAR marked pieces of work and summative assessment pieces.

• Homework set every 2 weeks.

Half Term 1: How did World War One change and shape the future of Europe?

• Content: Long Term and Short-Term causes of WW1, Recruitment, Trench Warfare, Conditions in the trenches, World War One Weapons, The Battle of The Somme, General Haig: Hero or Villain?, Russia leaves WW1 due to The Russian Revolution, Empire Soldiers, Women and WW1/The Home front, End of the war.

Half Term 2: How did the Nazis change German society?

• Content: What is a dictatorship?, The Treaty of Versailles, The Weimar Republic, Why did people vote for Hitler?, How did Hitler become a dictator?, The Nazis and Education, The Nazis and women, The Nazis and the economy, The Nazi Police State, Opposition to the Nazis.

Half Term 3: Why do we need to remember Holocaust?

• Content: What is a genocide?, Historical Anti-Semitism, Discrimination against Jews 1933-1939, Nuremberg Laws/ Kristallnacht, Ghettoes, Concentration camps, Jewish Resistance.

Half Term 4: How did World War two change Britain?

• Content: The Home Front (women, The Blitz, evacuation, rationing, The role of Churchill).

Half Term 5: What was the most significant Battles of World War Two?

• Content: Dunkirk, The Battle of Britain, The Battle of the Atlantic, Operation Barbarossa, Stalingrad, Pearl Harbour, D Day, The Atomic Bombs.

Half Term 6: How did the Cold War divide the world?

• Content: What is Communism and Capitalism?, Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift, NATO and The Warsaw Pact, The Cold War in Asia (China, Korea and Vietnam), 1960s Key Cold War events (U2 spy plane incident, The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Berlin Wall).

Terms 1 & 2 Assessment:

• A knowledge retrieval at the start of every lesson.

• A red zone task completed independently every 1-2 lessons.

• Pupils will complete 1 STAR marked piece of work per term.

• Pupils will complete feedback on their STAR marked pieces of work and summative assessment pieces.

• Pupils will complete a summative assessment at the end of term to show their progress.

• Homework set every 2 weeks.

Terms 3 & 4 Assessment:

• A knowledge retrieval at the start of every lesson.

• A red zone task completed independently every 1-2 lessons.

• Pupils will complete 1 STAR marked piece of work per term.

• Pupils will complete feedback on their STAR marked pieces of work and summative assessment pieces.

• Pupils will complete a summative assessment at the end of term to show their progress.

• Homework every 2 weeks.

Terms 5 & 6 Assessment:

• A knowledge retrieval at the start of every lesson.

• A red zone task completed independently every 1-2 lessons.

• Pupils will complete 1 STAR marked piece of work per term.

• Pupils will complete feedback on their STAR marked pieces of work and summative assessment pieces.

• Homework every 2 weeks.

Half Term 1 & Half Term 2: Germany 1918-1945

• Content: German Unification, Impact of World War One, Germany after World War One, The Treaty of Versailles, Weimar Germany, Political unrest 1919-1923, The Stresemann Era, Why did people vote for the Nazis?, How did the Nazis create a dictatorship?, The Nazis and the economy, Impact of World War Two, Nazis and education, Women in Nazi Germany, Control of Religion, The Nazi Police State, Final Solution and Jewish policy, Propaganda and Censorship, Opposition.

Half Term 3 & Half Term 4: Cold War 1945-1972

• Content: Different ideologies, Yalta/Potsdam, Iron Curtain/Truman Doctrine, Cominform/Comecon, Berlin Blockade/Airlift, The China Revolution, The Korean War, The Vietnam War, The Space/Arms race, Hungarian Uprising/U2 Crisis, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, Detente.

Half Term 5 & Half Term 6: The Elizabethan Age

• Content: Elizabeth and Government, Problems faced by Elizabeth, Marriage, Parliament, The Essex Rebellion, Puritan threat, Catholic Threat, Mary Queen of Scots.

Terms 1 & 2 Assessment:

• A knowledge retrieval at the start of every lesson.

• A red zone task completed independently every 1-2 lessons.

• Pupils will complete 1 STAR marked piece of work per half term.

• Pupils will complete feedback on their STAR marked pieces of work and summative assessment pieces.

• Pupils will complete a summative assessment at the end of term to show their progress.

• Homework set every week.

Terms 3 & 4 Assessment:

• A knowledge retrieval at the start of every lesson.

• A red zone task completed independently every 1-2 lessons.

• Pupils will complete 1 STAR marked piece of work per half term.

• Pupils will complete feedback on their STAR marked pieces of work and summative assessment pieces.

• Pupils will complete a summative assessment at the end of term to show their progress.

• Homework set every week.

Terms 5 & 6 Assessment:

• MOCK EXAMS.

• A knowledge retrieval at the start of every lesson.

• Pupils will complete 1 STAR marked piece of work per half term.

• Pupils will complete feedback on their STAR marked pieces of work and summative assessment pieces.

• Homework set every 2 weeks.

Half Term 1 & Half Term 2: The Elizabethan Age & Britain Health and the People c1000-Present day

• Content: The Golden Age, Theatre and Entertainment, Poverty, English sailors/circumnavigation, The Spanish Armada, Historic Environment Case Study, Treating the sick in Medieval England, The influence of Islamic medicine, Limitations of Medieval surgery, Public health in Medieval towns, The Black Death, The Renaissance and surgery/physiology, Medical treatments in the 17th and 18th century.

Half Term 3 & Half Term 4: Britain Health and the People c1000-Present day

• Content: Edward Jenner and the prevention of Smallpox, Anaesthetics in 19th century Britain, 19th century ideas about infection, Germ theory/Aseptic surgery, Cholera and public health in the 19th century, Government reactions to public health in the 19th century, Modern treatment of diseases, Science and treatment in the 21st century, The impact of war and technology on surgery.

Half Term 5 & Half Term 6: Revision and Exams

• Content: Revision and Exams.

Terms 1 & 2 Assessment:

• A knowledge retrieval at the start of every lesson.

• A red zone task completed independently every 1-2 lessons.

• Pupils will complete 1 STAR marked piece of work per half term.

• Pupils will complete feedback on their STAR marked pieces of work and summative assessment pieces.

• Pupils will complete a summative assessment at the end of term to show their progress.

• MOCK EXAMS.

• Homework set every week.

Terms 3 & 4 Assessment:

• A knowledge retrieval at the start of every lesson.

• A red zone task completed independently every 1-2 lessons.

• Pupils will complete 1 STAR marked piece of work per half term.

• Pupils will complete feedback on their STAR marked pieces of work and summative assessment pieces.

• Pupils will complete a summative assessment at the end of term to show their progress.

• MOCK EXAMS.

• Homework set every week.

Terms 5 & 6 Assessment:

• Exams.